作为首部荣获奥斯卡最佳影片提名(特别荣誉奖)的影片,《蒙骗》在叙事架构上展现了极高的精密性,导演塞西尔·B·戴米尔利用摄影棚内的布景欺骗观众,将舞台剧美学转化为极具欺骗性的电影空间。 ☻。如果你喜欢看那种揪心、虐恋又带点压抑感的剧情,这种极致的悲剧氛围绝对能让你沉浸其中,跟着角色一起叹气。对于研究 silent era 叙事技术的影迷而言,这部影片展示了早期导演如何通过场景分割和调度逻辑,在无声环境中完成复杂戏剧冲突的传递。影片没有靠吵闹的桥段博取笑声,而是聚焦于早期好莱坞并不常见的悬疑与惊悚氛围。故事简单,没那么多花活,就是看着老太太跟老头子讲以前的破事。
Edith Hardy uses charity funds for Wall Street investments in hopes of buying some new gowns. She loses all the money and borrows from wealthy oriental Tori. When her husband gives her the amount she borrowed, Tori won't take it back, branding her shoulder with a Japanese sign of his ownership. She shoots him. Her husband takes the blame. In court Edith reveals all to an angry mob. Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu} Richard Hardy, a hardworking stockbroker, labors overtime to keep up with the ruinous bills incurred by his beautiful but irresponsible wife Edith, a venal, spoiled socialite who is impervious to his pleas for fiscal restraint. Acting on what she believes to be an insider information, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the Red Cross charity she chairs for a stock tip. When she finds the money has been lost, she desperately turns to a Japanese ivory trader with whom she has been thoughtlessly flirting and persuades him to replace the money in exchange for an assignation. When her husband's long-awaited business deal finally materializes, she desperately tries to withdraw from their agreement by replacing the money. Angered and disappointed with her resistance to his advances, he uses a branding device to mark her shoulder as his property. Feeling violated, Edith shoots him in the shoulder and leaves. In order to protect his wife's reputation, Richard confesses to the crime and faces trial for attempted murder. Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)